From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: trace: fix printk warning for u64
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:08:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028090846.GR15734@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081027220655.1d188e1d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:12:54 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ingo,
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:52:48 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > (btw., did the "unify u64 definitions across all platforms" project
> > > get anywhere?)
> >
> > I think (from a comment from DaveM) that it led into a real mess.
>
> The problem is the large amount of arch-specific code which is
> printing u64's with %lu because it "knows" that u64 is implemented
> as ulong. They all need to be switched to %ll.
>
> A better strategy to get all this done would be to convert the
> offending architectures to `long long' individually. Then when
> that's all done, unifying the typedef is a trivial step.
so here's the patch below which achieves just that. 64-bit platforms
using the old int-l64.h header will get build warnings which they can
fix gradually.
There's no runtime failures expected, nor any non-warning build
failures, correct? So lets just do this, hm?
Ingo
---
include/asm-generic/int-l64.h | 63 +---------------------------------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/int-l64.h b/include/asm-generic/int-l64.h
index 2af9b75..a152df9 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/int-l64.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/int-l64.h
@@ -1,71 +1,12 @@
/*
* asm-generic/int-l64.h
*
- * Integer declarations for architectures which use "long"
- * for 64-bit types.
+ * migration helper, will go away soon.
*/
#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_INT_L64_H
#define _ASM_GENERIC_INT_L64_H
-#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-/*
- * __xx is ok: it doesn't pollute the POSIX namespace. Use these in the
- * header files exported to user space
- */
-
-typedef __signed__ char __s8;
-typedef unsigned char __u8;
-
-typedef __signed__ short __s16;
-typedef unsigned short __u16;
-
-typedef __signed__ int __s32;
-typedef unsigned int __u32;
-
-typedef __signed__ long __s64;
-typedef unsigned long __u64;
-
-#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
-#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-
-typedef signed char s8;
-typedef unsigned char u8;
-
-typedef signed short s16;
-typedef unsigned short u16;
-
-typedef signed int s32;
-typedef unsigned int u32;
-
-typedef signed long s64;
-typedef unsigned long u64;
-
-#define S8_C(x) x
-#define U8_C(x) x ## U
-#define S16_C(x) x
-#define U16_C(x) x ## U
-#define S32_C(x) x
-#define U32_C(x) x ## U
-#define S64_C(x) x ## L
-#define U64_C(x) x ## UL
-
-#else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-
-#define S8_C(x) x
-#define U8_C(x) x
-#define S16_C(x) x
-#define U16_C(x) x
-#define S32_C(x) x
-#define U32_C(x) x
-#define S64_C(x) x
-#define U64_C(x) x
-
-#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
-
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_INT_L64_H */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 6:43 trace: fix printk warning for u64 Stephen Rothwell
2008-10-27 9:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-27 13:12 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-10-28 5:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-28 9:08 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-27 10:26 ` Steven Rostedt
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